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H. O. WHITMARSH.

SUSPENDERS? 7 No. 260,721. Patented July 4, 1882.

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' HENRY OLWHITMARSH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SUSPENDERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 260,721, dated July 4, 1882.

- Application filed March 31, 1882. (No model.)

facilitate the free and ready attachment and detachment of the cast-off of the suspenderends from the buckle or slide of the shoulderstrap.

The improvement consists in a buckle or slide with a downward extension carrying a stud or button, in combination with reversible suspender-ends.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an elevation of the front end ot' a suspenderstrap fitted with my improved-buckle and suspender-ends Fig. 2, a plan view of one of the reversible suspender-ends detached; Fig. 3, an elevation, and Fig. 4 a central cross-section, of the buckle detached.

A is the shoulder-strap, B the buckle, and G (J the detachable reversible ends, of a pair of suspenders or braces.

The buckle B may be made of any approved pattern, my invention being applicable to all forms of buckles or of slides or other devices designed to engage the strap and attach or confine the suspender-ends thereto.

D is a stud or button formed upon or secured to the portion of theframeof the buckle, to project neatly from its front face. (See Fig. 4.) The shank of the stud 'is made long enough to receive the two suspenderends O oppositeend free to be buttoned or otherwise secured to the pantaloons or other garment to be upheld by the device. The suspenderends,

when buttoned or secured to the pantaloons,

need not be detached therefrom to release the shoulder-straps, the release being more readily effected by .unbuttoning and casting off the ends from the stud Den the buckle.

1 am aware that a buckle has been devised for suspenders and braces consisting of two jointed or hinged plates, between which the brace or Suspender-strap is held by means of a stud upon the rear plate, made to project through an opening in the front plate and to be caught and held by a loop in a metallic plate to which thesuspenderendsare attached, as isillustratedin the English Patent No. 2,722 of 1868; but Ideem such a device to be more complicated and costly than myinventiou and to bedevoid of its peculiar advantages.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A cast-ofl' for suspenders, consisting of a buckle or slide having a downward-extended portion carrying a stud or button, in combination with two independent suspender-ends having button-holes at both ends, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

- HENRY G. WHlTMARSH.

Witnesses:

J. F. AGKER, J r., JOHN A. ELLIs. 

